If you remember the lead up to the invasion of Yugoslavia, Iraq and Afghanistan, you'll know exactly what NATO (or maybe just us and the USA) have in mind for Libya. You can sense it in the news reports. Here, by contrast, is an excellent article in today's Guardian on Libya.

Incidentally you may have noticed that the official Libyan news agency site, listed along with many other unusual sources in our excellent Indy News section, has mysteriously died. Read about that here.

Well Anonymous, as I write NATO have launched over 100 cruise missles and dropped well over 100 bombs against Libya. You're looking, to be frank, a little stupid. Honestly I don't know why political infants like you bother to read this site, let alone add comments. You're clearly not learning anything from it.

I read sites like this to see what twits like you are saying and doing. It can get quite depressing . . .If you had been paying attention, you'd have seen the amount of resistance by some US figures (e.g. Gates) to any action at all, and the pleas of the Libyan rebels for some - any - concrete help.Do we assume you think it would be better for Gadaffi to be left to 'correct' the rebels unchecked, as Saddam Hussain 'corrected' his own dissidents?

The Libyan rebels have been speaking: A spokesman in Benghazi has said they welcome more air strikes by foreign forces, but do not want foreign ground troops to intervene in the war. “They say their aim is still to capture the Libyan capital, Tripoli, but that they want to achieve that without foreign offensive action”, the rebel spokesman has told a news conference in Benghazi.

Other quotes from Libyans in Libya –

"I just want to assure anyone who questions how the west of the country feels about the air strikes, that people in the west are just as desperate to see Gaddafi go, they understand that it will come at a cost, and they are paying it. You don't see them protesting against Gaddafi because they are being surrounded by his brutal forces that shoot people in the streets, kidnap them from their houses, and set snipers on top of their buildings. Please believe me as a Libyan, whose family is still in the midst of all this, now that we have a resolution, don't let the Libyan people down because of propaganda that Gaddafi always used. The few hundreds who are shown as pro-Gaddafi are either forced to do this through taking hostages of their loved ones, or thugs who always helped Gaddafi oppress Libyans, and they are now sticking with him."

"All my friends and family I have contacted in Libya feel more protected since the air strikes. They feel they are being cared for by the international community. Gaddafi was just taking revenge and punishing everyone, but people on the streets are happy the allied forces are weakening the regime. Tripoli is run by fear - there are a lot of arrests and killings by Gaddafi forces. There were demonstrations there last week. The air strike on Gaddafi headquarters is huge. It is a huge military fortress. It is good it has been hit."